Teresa Kee, B.S.

Visiting Scientist, Pathology, Cwru School of Medicine

Academic Email: teresakee@usf.edu

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Education

Interdisciplinary and Emerging Signature Programs

• Cellular and Molecular Biology
• Neurodegenerative Disease
• Neuroscience

Research Interests

• I am currently researching how mutations in a mitochondrial protein cause familial Parkinson's disease in Dr. JungA Alexa Woo's lab. My lab recently moved to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, so I will be finishing my dissertation research from there.

Recent Publications

• Kee TR, Espinoza Gonzalez P, Wehinger JL, Bukhari MZ, Ermekbaeva A, Sista A, Kotsiviras P, Liu T, Kang DE, Woo JA. Mitochondrial CHCHD2: Disease-Associated Mutations, Physiological Functions, and Current Animal Models. Frontiers in aging neuroscience. 13: 660843, 2021.
• Fang C, Woo JA, Liu T, Zhao X, Cazzaro S, Yan Y, Matlack J, Kee T, LePochat P, Kang DE. SSH1 impedes SQSTM1/p62 flux and MAPT/Tau clearance independent of CFL (cofilin) activation. Autophagy. : 1-22, 2020.
• Woo JA, Liu T, Fang CC, Castaño MA, Kee T, Yrigoin K, Yan Y, Cazzaro S, Matlack J, Wang X, Zhao X, Kang DE, Liggett SB. β-Arrestin2 oligomers impair the clearance of pathological tau and increase tau aggregates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117(9) : 5006-5015, 2020.
• Woo JA, Liu T, Fang CC, Cazzaro S, Kee T, LePochat P, Yrigoin K, Penn C, Zhao X, Wang X, Liggett SB, Kang DE. Activated cofilin exacerbates tau pathology by impairing tau-mediated microtubule dynamics. Communications biology. 2: 112, 2019.